Warning! This financial meltdown flick is suffering from a stud bubble.

Box office studs Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling are set to star in a film adaption of "The Big Short," scribbler Michael Lewis' book about the recent financial crisis, Variety reports.

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Pitt's company, Plan B, is producing the flick, while "Anchorman" lensman Adam McKay is set to direct.

The 2010 book — taglined "Inside the Doomsday Machine" — is an engrossing tick-tock about the swelling of the housing and credit bubble, which burst in 2007 and brought the world's market to its knees.

It's the second Lewis book Pitt has shepherded to the screen. In 2011, he produced and starred in "Moneyball," Lewis' nonfiction yarn about the Oakland Athletic's manager Billy Beane.

It's not yet clear who Pitt, Bale and Gosling will play in the story, which follows a handful of key players who played a role in the crisis, including a hedge fund mogul and a Deutsche Bank trader.

Variety said other A-listers will appear as central characters, likening it to 2000 Steven Soderberg hit "Traffic."

Pitt's Plan B has had a string of hits over the past few years, including Best Picture Oscar-winner "12 Years a Slave" and "Selma," which snagged a Golden Globe on Sunday for Best Original Song.